Homeless Man, 83, Who Hadn't Washed Or Changed In Years Given Amazing Makeover By Local Community

It’s almost impossible to believe it’s the same person.

A homeless Peruvian tramp has been given an astonishing makeover by his local community.

Don Luciano Chuman, known as Ferreñafe’s “crazy man,” hadn’t washed or changed his clothes in years.

The 83-year-old’s filthy long hair was seriously matted, and he walked along the streets with a crippling stoop.

It’s not clear exactly why the Peregrin Evangelical Church decided to step in earlier this month, seeing as he’s been without an abode for some time.

But members took him in, exchanged his filthy garms for fresh ones and scrubbed him up with a shave and a neat new haircut.

Social services have also now agreed to provide him with food on a regular basis.

And he’s been treated in hospital for various medical conditions and given cash and a national ID card.

Photographs of his stunning transformation were to a local Ferrenafe community Facebook page.

“It’s an act of humanity that sets an example to us all,” the city’s mayor Jacinto Muro Tavara has been quoted as saying.

“Many others aside from Don Chuman need our help, though unfortunately we are often quite indifferent to them,” he said.

“I applaud the local community’s initiative in carrying out this act of solidarity,” he added.

(Pictures credited to CEN)